Events

Advance your Career in Medical Device Design & Quality
2026-08-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
From discovery to market
Join Kiran Gulati, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Medical Device Quality and Design program, for an inside look at how our courses provide hands-on training, practical case studies, and industry-relevant skills that prepare you for roles in quality engineering, regulatory compliance, and design assurance.

Sponsor
This info session is sponsored by the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Medical Device Quality and Design program.

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ReView
2026-08-27 01:00 - 2026-10-04 00:59, 2026-08-26 01:00 - 2026-10-03 00:59, 2026-08-25 01:00 - 2026-10-02 00:59, 2026-08-24 01:00 - 2026-10-01 00:59, 2026-08-23 01:00 - 2026-09-30 00:59, 2026-08-22 01:00 - 2026-09-29 00:59, 2026-08-21 01:00 - 2026-09-28 00:59, 2026-08-20 01:00 - 2026-09-27 00:59 | Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
August 13-September 19, 2026
Opening celebration and Artist Talk
Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m
Light refreshments will be served.
Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm
ReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda, the Sesnon’s Director, ReView includes a wide variety of media and techniques highlighting the diversity of contemporary practice of alumni who graduated from 1972 to 2025. The exhibition title alludes to the portfolio critique process and suggests ideas of reflection and reevaluation—whether revisiting past work, rethinking materials, or tracing how a practice evolves over time.
This exhibition celebrates the creative path of artists who began their journeys at UC Santa Cruz. United by shared roots yet defined by distinct paths, the participating alumni reflect the lasting influence of the Arts Division programs. Their works speak to the spirit of inquiry, experimentation, and perseverance that has long shaped the university’s artistic community.
ReView presents an opportunity for the campus and larger community to see the professional practice of these artists who continue to build on the creative foundation that they received at UCSC and to inspire our current students, offering visualization of their own future artistic journeys after graduation.
ReView offers a unique opportunity for returning alumni to celebrate their creative expressions while reconnecting with classmates and the university community.
Admission is free and open to the public.
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Where Hardware Meets Intelligence
2026-08-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Embedded Systems: Build the Intelligence Behind the Hardware
Join Juergen Kienhoefer to explore the foundations of embedded systems and how firmware powers the devices we use every day—plus get an introduction to how AI is transforming the field.
Learn how our UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Embedded Systems courses prepare you to develop low-level software, interface with hardware components, and build reliable real-time applications for microcontrollers and embedded platforms, while gaining insight into emerging trends like AI at the edge. Discover how the hands-on courses can help advance your career in embedded systems engineering.
Your speaker
Juergen Kienhoefer, instructor of the AI-Driven Embedded Systems course, also teaches Linux Systems Programming, which kicks off Sept. 25.
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Explore our program page and course catalog to see the full course lineup.

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Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation
2026-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Where biology meets Big Data
Join us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis, genomics, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career opportunities, and answer your questions about getting started.
Your speaker
Darryl A. León, Ph.D., has over 10 years of experience leading product management teams, launching customer-focused products, and partnering with R&D groups to deliver high-quality software, hardware, and cloud-based solutions that support academic, biopharma, and clinical research markets. He has served as chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Bioinformatics Advisory Committee since 2025.
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This session is hosted by the Bioinformatics program. Visit our program page for additional details and a closer look at all upcoming courses.

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Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation
2026-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Where biology meets Big Data
Join us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis, genomics, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career opportunities, and answer your questions about getting started.
Your speaker
Darryl A. León, Ph.D., director, Software Portfolio Strategy at Agilent Technologies, has over 10 years of experience leading product management teams, launching customer-focused products, and partnering with R&D groups to deliver high-quality software, hardware, and cloud-based solutions that support academic, biopharma, and clinical research markets. He has served as chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Bioinformatics Advisory Committee since 2025.
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This session is hosted by the Bioinformatics program. Visit our program page for additional details and a closer look at all upcoming courses.
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From Idea to Income: How to Validate Your Next Business Idea Before Investing More Time and Money
2026-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
From Idea to Income: How to Validate Your Next Business Idea Before Investing More Time and Money With Sami Toussi
Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026 | Noon PT
Virtual via Zoom
Hosted by the UCLA Alumni Association, open to all UC alumni
Most entrepreneurs don’t fail because they lack passion. They fail because they build something customers don’t actually want.
In this interactive workshop, UCLA alumna and Business Strategist Sami Toussi will introduce the Lean Canvas framework and walk through the key questions every founder should answer to build a stronger business. You’ll learn how to identify your ideal customer, uncover unmet needs, evaluate growth opportunities, and strengthen your business model.
Through guided exercises and real-world examples, you’ll begin applying these concepts to your own business during the session.
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Designing for Today's Digital World
2026-08-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Design digital experiences people love to use.
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy, usability, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight users. Learn how UX and web design specialists use research‑driven methods, prototyping tools, and inclusive design principles to build seamless digital experiences across platforms.
Speaker
Join Nicole Sharratt, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension User Experience & Web Design program, for an inside look at how our courses equip you with the skills to lead user‑centered design projects—whether you’re shaping websites, apps or digital products.
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See our course page for a closer look at all upcoming offerings.
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Getting Involved in Your Campus Community
2026-08-25 14:00 - 14:45 | https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/7372922776?pwd=[REDACTED]
In this workshop, you will: Learn how to get involved with the campus community and how it supports student success.
The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you will be introduced to a topic, engage in active learning, be given resources to begin implementing the same day, and have an opportunity to learn more if you are interested.
You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

Gomez, J. (CSE) - Toward Sustainable and Secure Open Source Software: Discovery, Measurement, and Defense
2026-08-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz Utils, a widely used open source data compression library present in nearly every major Linux distribution. The attack was discovered days before merging into major distributions, and if this had happened, it would have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on millions of systems worldwide via SSH.
The success of this backdoor was enabled by two failures. The first was technical: weaknesses in the software supply chain allowed a malicious actor to inject code into a widely trusted release. The second was human: the project’s only maintainer, overwhelmed and burned out after years of maintaining critical infrastructure alone, was the target of a multi-year social engineering campaign, in which a malicious actor built trust under a false identity and gradually obtained commit access to the project. This incident shows that software security failures and sustainability failures are not independent: an overburdened, unsupported maintainer is itself an attack surface.
Academic and scientific open source software (OSS) faces both of these crises simultaneously. Projects that critical infrastructure depends on are maintained by researchers, students, and faculty who contribute in their spare time, without dedicated security training or institutional support. Existing security frameworks including NIST’s SSDF, OWASP’s SCVS, and SLSA were not designed with these communities in mind, and policy efforts such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act have shown that mandates developed without community input risk harming the ecosystems they are meant to protect.
This dissertation addresses the sustainability and security of academic open source software through two parallel empirical research tracks. The sustainability track combines GitHub’s REST API with LLM-based filtering to discover and characterize over 216,000 institutionally affiliated repositories across 32 academic and research institutions, finding that while 84% include a README, only 23.4% carry a detectable license and fewer than 2% include a Contributing Guide. Building on this dataset, we develop a maturity-staged sustainability framework that classifies projects into four lifecycle stages and generates targeted recommendations for Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs).
The security track examines whether post-9/11 trade security programs offer a workable model for OSS supply-chain policy, finding that effective frameworks require voluntary incentives and direct community engagement rather than top-down mandates. We further evaluate five large language models on the OWASP Benchmark for vulnerability triage, finding that o1-mini reduces false positives by 20% over the Semgrep baseline, demonstrating the potential for automation to reduce the security burden on individual maintainers.
Together, these contributions treat sustainability and security as interconnected problems. A project that cannot sustain itself cannot secure its code, and this dissertation takes steps toward closing both gaps.

Event Host: Juanita Gomez, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Alvaro Cardenas
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/91057980344?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Empowering humans through AI
2026-08-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Join us for an inside look at how our AI Application Development courses provide hands‑on experience, industry‑driven projects, and the technical foundation you need to advance your career as an ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer, or Applied AI Researcher.
Your speaker
Kavitha Velusamy, Ph.D., brings more than 20 years of experience developing cutting-edge technologies at Amazon, NVIDIA, Cisco, Leia Inc., and Robust.AI. Kavitha currently serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Robust.AI and teaches Humanoid Robotics (Sept. 19) and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics (Sept. 26).
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See our course page for a closer look at all upcoming offerings.
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Pawar, M. (CSE) - Understanding Representations, Reasoning, and Decision-Making in Autonomous Driving Models
2026-08-24 14:00 - 16:00
Modern autonomous-driving models increasingly rely on learned representations and generated reasoning to interpret complex scenes and produce predictions or actions. However, it remains unclear what information these models encode, how that information is exposed through common interpretation methods, and whether their stated reasoning meaningfully influences their behavior. This research investigates these questions across motion-forecasting and vision-language-action models.
Event Host: Manasi Pawar, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Leilani Gilpin
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92653015420?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

BIC 2026 | UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
2026-08-23 08:30 - 17:00, 2026-08-22 08:00 - 21:00 | Kresge College, R-3 Suites, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The 26th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium (BIC 2026) is taking place at UC Santa Cruz on August 22-23, 2026. The event will bring together faculty, researchers, students, industry representatives, non-profit organizations, and other stakeholders to explore bioengineering & AI in the heart of the redwood forest. BIC 2026 will foster new collaborations and showcase the latest advancements in bioengineering research and innovation, including at the intersection with AI.
Register here.

Dates & Time

Day 1 (Saturday, August 22): August 22 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 pm
Day 2 (Sunday, August 23): August 23 @ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Registration Fees & Cost

Undergraduate Student: $215 (Early Bird) / $265 (Standard)
Graduate Student or Postdoc: $270 (Early Bird) / $320 (Standard)
Faculty or Staff: $320 (Early Bird) / $370 (Standard)
Industry or Guest: $420 (Early Bird) / $470 (Standard)

Note: Late bird/Standard rates apply starting June 16, 2026, and a 4.00% processing fee is added at checkout.

UCSC Farm U-Pick
2026-08-22 09:00 - 12:00 | UCSC Farm, 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or flowers at the campus farm!
When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm, July 11–August 22, or while supplies last. PLEASE NOTE that u-pick will not occur on Saturday, August 29.
Where: Free parking will be available in the Hay Barn lot or lot 115/116 during u-pick hours. Please do not park in the dirt lot at the farm’s back gate. Please walk to the check-in table near the strawberries/flowers at the farm to pre-pay and collect your u-pick container(s). We will have directional signage displayed. There is one ADA parking spot on the farm. The UCSC Farm has uneven, hilly terrain. If you require accommodations to fully participate, please email agroecology@ucsc.edu.
Cost: UCSC students with valid ID get 25% off produce.

Strawberry pints – $4 each
Strawberry flats (12 pints) – $44
Flowers, small bouquet – $5
Flowers, large bouquet – $15
Flower, bulk buckets – $65

Payment: Credit card payments only (you will need a smartphone to scan a QR code and enter your card info manually).
Dogs are not allowed on the UC Santa Cruz campus (service animals are OK).

Huang, X. (CSE) - Scalable and Verifiable Reasoning for Medical Foundation Models
2026-08-21 15:00 - 16:00
This PhD research focuses on developing reliable medical foundation models capable of reasoning across textual, visual, and interactive clinical information. The work investigates three complementary directions: improving medical reasoning through test-time scaling, training multimodal medical models with verifiable rewards, and synthesizing high-quality visual question-answering data from biomedical literature using generator-verifier frameworks. Building on these efforts, the proposed research will extend medical language and multimodal models toward agentic systems that can gather evidence, use external tools, integrate multimodal information, and verify decisions over sequential interactions. Overall, this research aims to improve the reliability, efficiency, and transparency of medical AI reasoning while supporting reproducible and human-supervised applications in healthcare.
Event Host: Xiaoke Huang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Yuyin Zhou
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/8855787311
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nava, A. (AM) - Machine-Learning Methods for Prediction of Biological Systems
2026-08-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Advances in microscopy have enabled the collection of high-quality single-cell datasets, providing new opportunities to identify the mechanisms underlying complex biological processes. In this work, we develop machine-learning frameworks using single-cell temporal data with the goal of predicting and providing insights into these mechanisms. We produce frameworks for two biological systems, bacterial spore germination, the process in which bacteria begin metabolic activity, and embryonic stem cell organization. Bacterial spore germination is a critical transition in which the spore becomes susceptible to control techniques, however the mechanisms governing this transition are unknown. We develop a machine-learning framework that predicts germination timing at the single-spore level, enabling identification of predictive features associated with germination that may reflect underlying biological mechanisms. Embryonic stem cell organization has been shown to closely recapitulate formations seen in embryonic development, but the mechanisms driving their spatial organization remain unclear. Here, we develop a simple agent-based model in which spatial organization is driven by cell-cell interaction parameters. We then train a machine-learning framework to infer these underlying interaction parameters from simulated data and propose that this approach can be extended to other agent-based models calibrated to experimental stem cell data. These studies demonstrate that machine-learning models can be used for prediction using single-cell temporal data, as well as tools to develop mechanistic hypotheses.

Event Host: Alexandra Nava, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics
Advisor: Marcella Gomez
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98821445104?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

How to Apply to the Premed Postbacc Program
2026-08-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Join UC Santa Cruz Healthcare Pathways for a live online information session to learn about our Premed Postbacc Cohort, Premed and Pre-Health DIY Pathways, and other program offerings.
We’ll provide an overview of our programs and cover how to apply for our next admissions cycle, which opens August 7. We’ll also discuss the application process, admissions timeline, coursework, advising, MCAT preparation, and more.
You’ll have plenty of time to ask questions and connect directly with program staff.
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Become a Special Education Teacher Assistant
2026-08-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Interested in becoming a Special Education Teacher Assistant?
Join us for an informative session to explore the courses designed to prepare you for success in inclusive and special education classrooms. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career opportunities, and answer your questions about getting started.
Your speaker
Sharmila Roy, Ph.D., began her teaching journey in India and pursued further training in the United Kingdom before earning her doctorate in Special Education from the University of Buffalo in New York. She brings over three decades of expertise in special education to her role as program chair of the Special Education Teacher Assistant certificate program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension.
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This session is hosted by the Special Education Teacher Assistant program. Visit our program page for additional details and a closer look at all upcoming courses.
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Penunuri, G. (BMEB) - Genomic, Proteomic, and Computational Approaches to the Study of Host-Microbe Systems
2026-08-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Biomedical Sciences Building, 575 McLaughlin Drive
Host-microbe systems are core to some of biology’s most consequential interactions, from the pathogens that drive infectious disease to symbionts affecting agricultural pest control and vector-borne disease transmission. Yet unlike the model organisms that have driven most of modern molecular biology, the microbes at the center of these interactions are rarely genetically tractable: many cannot be cultured outside a host, resist standard tools for genetic manipulation, and are annotated largely by homology to distantly related free-living relatives. This dissertation develops genomic, proteomic, and computational methods to work around this lack of infrastructure and contribute techniques and tools to the study and further understanding of host-microbe systems. Using Wolbachia cultured in Drosophila melanogaster cell lines, I demonstrate that chemical mutagenesis can be used to perturb intracellular genomes leaving a detectable mutational signal. I employ a low error rate sequencing technique to record and model the mutational landscape left by the mutagen ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) demonstrating its use for mutagenesis screens of intracellular bacteria. I next utilize structural proteome datasets to screen host-microbe proteomes for strong candidates of molecular mimicry, microbe proteins that have coevolved a eukaryotic like domain or structure and suggest use for host manipulation or microbe survival in the host environment. Building off of this screen for novel effectors through structural alignments I develop and test a distributed computing system for performing large scale systematic literature reviews. Altogether these projects represent generalizable approaches to the study of host-microbe systems reaching from classically studied and thoroughly understood to novel and non-model systems.
Event Host: Gabriel Penunuri, Ph.D. Candidate, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics
Advisor: Russell Corbett-Detig
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98216883331?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
2026-08-20 12:00 - 17:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives.
In part, the exhibition challenges the persistent assumption that games and play are detached from social and political life. On the contrary, game designers and artists across diverse perspectives and positions have long used play to engage questions of social systems, lived experience, and how power operates. This exhibition does not attempt to represent that full spectrum. Instead, it brings together a particular set of works that foreground how games can make systems visible, intervene in them, and imagine alternatives.
All games embody values, whether intentional or not.
– Mary Flanagan, game designer and scholar
Across all of these works, games are not only forms of entertainment, though they may be that as well. They are encountered in multiple ways: as objects, as systems, as artworks, and as experiences that unfold unpredictably through interaction. In each case, rules and constraints shape what participants can do. In these different forms, the works stage systems – such as housing and land ownership, capitalism, race and identity, civil rights and protest, fascism, and colonialism – in ways that are simplified and easy to see, opening space to recognize similar structures beyond the game. In this sense, the works suggest that rules are not neutral – they organize experience, distribute power, and produce meaning.
Games are the art of agency.
– C. Thi Nguyen, philosopher
The exhibition is intentionally dense. This abundance reflects the breadth of ways games operate across contexts, from activism and education to art and everyday life. While it celebrates creativity and difference, it also asks how these works engage critically with the structures that shape our lives.
Some works use rules to model systems, helping players understand how those systems operate. Others use play to rehearse action, asking players to practice navigating or challenging those systems. Still others turn toward speculation, inviting players to imagine alternative futures, worlds, and the systems that might shape them.
The imagination is an instrument of change.
– Ursula K. Le Guin, author
The focus on analog games reflects how they foreground materiality and shared physical presence. Played face-to-face, handled, read aloud, and experienced together, these works show how rules operate not in abstraction, but through lived, embodied experience.
Ultimately, the exhibition asks us to consider not only how games represent the world, but how they shape our engagement with it – and how through play, the social and political systems they model might be understood, challenged, and reimagined.
Games are not apolitical.
– Kishonna L. Gray, media scholar

Gallery Reception
May 15 from 1 to 4pm at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery

Art Friday
Hands-on art activities drawing from the current exhibition.
ALL ARE WELCOME regardless of skill level. Art supplies and free snacks are provided!

HireUC Alumni Career Summit - San Francisco
2026-08-20 10:00 - 14:00 | South San Francisco Conference Center, 255 S Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, 94080, United States
Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – San Francisco, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with 75+ employers actively recruiting UC talent.
This complimentary, expo-style event brings together accomplished job seekers and employers representing a wide range of industries and career fields. Meet face-to-face with hiring representatives, learn about current opportunities, expand your professional network, and discover what’s next in your career journey.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
South San Francisco Conference Center
Whether you’re actively searching for your next role or exploring future possibilities, we invite you to join us for a day of meaningful connections and career discovery.
Complimentary for alumni attendees. Advance registration is required.
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Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
2026-08-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Jack Baskin Engineering, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
During the chaos of a quarter, is it hard to find time to reflect and improve as an instructor? Would you like to be a part of an inclusive, supportive group of engineering instructors who do this in community? ETC is for sharing teaching experiences, classroom ideas, research on learning, and methods that support instructors and students. All are welcome, and lunch is provided. Please reach out to Jenny Quynn with questions.

Wellness in Action: Heart Healthy Cooking: Small Changes with Big Impacts Workshop
2026-08-19 12:00 - 12:30 | CA
Wednesday, August 5, 12:00 PM -12:30 PM
Register for the Zoom link.
Learn the key nutrition principles that support cardiovascular health and discover practical cooking strategies that fit into a busy work schedule. We’ll explore easy ingredient swaps, meal-building techniques, and simple ways to add more flavor while reducing excess sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars. Leave with simple ideas to create delicious meals that nourish the heart and overall well-being.
In this session, you’ll learn:

Characteristics of heart-healthy eating patterns
How to build balanced meals using simple, everyday ingredients
Make healthier swaps without sacrificing taste

Register here for the Zoom link. The workshop will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be sent out after the first session.
In the follow-up session on Wednesday, August 19 from 12:00 PM -12:30 PM, you will have the opportunity to share your experience and learn from others in the group. This session will not be recorded.
For questions, please reach out to Ashley Parker, Health and Well-being Specialist, at aseparke@ucsc.edu.
